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RHN

I know that in earlier versions of Red Hat (7.x and posibly 8.0) you got a free personal version of red hat network using their public servers (IE: SLOW) but for a home user it was good enough. Here is my question ... did they compleatly take that away? I got an email saying that I can take a survey to extend my 'Demo RHN Account for 30 days&quot; as long as I finish it. If they do make people pay for updates I'd be pretty upset! I'd rather get a free updates when I purchase a product rather than get it for free and have to pay per year to keep script kiddies out :

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I think redhat is trying to clean up thier RHN system and the survey is a way for them to indentify who is still using thier now called &quot;Demo&quot; accounts. Inactive accounts will be deleted. I've been a RHN subscriber pretty much since it's inception and the reliablity of the demo service has gone downhill IMO.

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I think redhat is trying to clean up thier RHN system and the survey is a way for them to indentify who is still using thier now called &quot;Demo&quot; accounts. Inactive accounts will be deleted. I've been a RHN subscriber pretty much since it's inception and the reliablity of the demo service has gone downhill IMO.
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That is correct. They need to purge, and this is their way of finding out who still uses it. You get an email a week before you will be purged.